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Die Staatsanwaltschaft muss bis September Beweise gegen Christian Brückner vorlegen, um ihn im Fall Maddie McCann anzuklagen.
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By September, the prosecutor's office will have to provide sufficient evidence in the case of Maddie McCann, who has been missing for 18 years, if she wants to accuse the main suspect. Otherwise Christian Brückner (48) could be released in autumn. Brückner is still in prison for another act – and is looking forward to his release there, as he now told an RTL reporter.
Brückner received this in a visiting room in the JVA Sehnde in
Lower Saxony. To the
Maddie case he said no word on the advice of his lawyer. Instead, he complained that he was in the
prison had been attacked: a prisoner had broken a rib for him. He also claimed that he had lost his facial expressions – because he spoke so rarely.
For Maddie's parents, Kate and Gerry (both 57), these statements have to be difficult to bear. On the 12th May Maddie would have been 22 years old. The girl was three years old when she May 2007 on vacation in Portugal in Praia da Luz disappeared.
Maddie was with
her younger twin siblings Sean and Amelie alone in the apartmentwhile the parents ate with friends in a nearby restaurant. At 10 p.m. they found: Maddie is gone!
And the girl remains gone. 2020 explains the
Prosecutor Braunschweig that she suspected Christian Brückner of killing Maddie. The criminal sex offender has been detained for rape of an American since 2019.
After discharge, he wants to go into hiding
This sentence is expected to end in mid-September. Brückner told the RTL reporter that he had to go into hiding after his release because he was known to be a colorful dog. He is most looking forward to a beer and a steak.
Whether it comes to this now depends on the investigation. To secure possible new evidence, the police have one
large search action started. The search area lies between the Ocean Club, from which the girl disappeared in 2007, and a finca in which Brückner lived shortly before the crime. The search takes place on the initiative of
Federal Criminal Police Office instead, the Portuguese police support the German colleagues.
It is the first police operation in Portugal since May 2023 when
Investigators at a reservoir in the Algarve were looking for clues. Photos show that the suspect had been there more often at the time of Maddie's disappearance. The search at the reservoir was unsuccessful.
The public prosecutor is under pressure: Because for an indictment
Murder the previous evidence is not sufficient from – further knowledge is required.